Apparatus for lubricating cars.



PATENTED JUNE za, 1904. wpJ. RAUM. APPARATUS EUR LUBRICATING CARS.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 23. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

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Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. RAUM, OF SYRAGUSE, NEI/V YORK.

APPARATUS FOR LUBRICATING CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming partrof Letters Patent No. 763,693,` dated June28, 1904.

Application filed October 23, 1903. Serial No. 178,294. (No model.)

To nfl/Z 11171/0711/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM J. RAUM, aciti- Zen of the United States,anda .resident of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State ofNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus forLubricating Cars, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings,

is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to equip railway-cars with simple andeiicient' means for applying lubricant in equal quantities and si-Ymultaneously to all the journals of the cartruck and to avoid the delayand eXtra labor of opening the journal-boxes and also guard againstwaste of lubricant; and to that end the inyention consists in the novelconstruction and combination of the component parts of the lubricatingapparatus hereinafter described and as illustrated in the annexeddrawings` 1n which- Figure 1 is a diagrammatic end View of 4arailroad-car equipped with my'invention. Fig. 2 is a side View of thatportion of the car to which my invention is applied. Fig. 3 is anenlarged transverse section o f the lubricantdistributing case. Fig. 4.is a detail View of the application of the lubricant-ducts to the-iournal-boXes of the car.

A represents the car-body, which may be of any ordinary form now in use.

B denotes one of the car-trucks, which may also be of any well-knownconstruction.

a a denote the journal-boxes or' the car. It

is attached to the reservoir for the purpose or' showing the supply ofoil therein.

c represents the main lubricant-pipe, which leads from the reservoir toa lubricant-distributing case CZ, suitably secured to the car beneaththe body A. A stop-cock or suitable valve e is connected to the mainpipe c for controlling the iiow of lubricant. The interior of thedistributing-cased is provided with walls ff, which meet central underthe inlet of the main pipe c and are inclined to the bottom of oppositesides of the case, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. rIhe aforesaidarrangement of the wallsff causes the inflowing lubricating-oil to beequally divided and conducted in separate streams to opposite sides ofthe case CZ. To the bottom parts of these walls are attached the ducts/t L, which lead to the journal-boxes a a at opposite sides of the truckand terminate in branch ducts entering the journal-box in front and rearof the journals] and supply the oil thereto.

By the use of the described lubricating apparatus a person can supplythe journal-boxes with lubricant by merely turning the valve e to allowthe lubricant to flow from the reservoir R through the main duct c tothe distribuiting-cased, which delivers the oil in equal quantities tothe ducts 7i L, which convey the oil to the journal-boxes t a. Byobserving the gage b the person in charge can readily note thev amountof lubricant supplied to the journal-boxes, and by closing the valve eat the proper time overfiow and waste of lubricant from thejournal-boxes is obviated.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination with a railway-car, ofa lubricant-reservoir attached to said car, amain pipe leading from saidreservoir, a distributing-case connected to said pipe, ducts leadingfrom said case to the journalboXes, there being walls in saiddistributing-case dividing the inflowing lubricant into separate streamsof equal volumes and conducting the same to the aforesaid ducts as setforth.

WILLIAM J. RAUM.

Witnesses:

J. J. LAAss, CHARLES S. KENT.

